Re: Torchwood--So do they not have ***ual harrassment laws across the pond?

In article <3dPPj.5847$Ux4.530@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 peachy a****e passion <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Pete B wrote:
> 
> > In article <q6FPj.13214$pH4.1542@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > says...
> > 
> >>   I've also been in the position of being told "do me or get fired".
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > That should clearly be illegal. But should dumb jokes really be? 
> 
>    There is dumb, and then there is offensive.  And then there is guys 
> starting to put your name in, saying "dumb ****s like Peach here".  And 
> then there is "Peach and two other ****s walk into a bar".

Serious question -- are you saying that one of those is dumb, and one is 
offensive?
> 
>    And it's all just a joke ha-ha, and "if you are offended then maybe 
> you aren't tough enough to work here".  Never mind if you are able to do

> the job perfectly well, and Odin forbid you do the job better than they
do.
> 
> 
> 
> > And 
> > should a women be afraid of jokes? Couldn't she chose someone elses 
> > company? 
> > 
> 
>     Sometimes she could.  Sometimes there is only one job around that 
> pays a living wage.
> 
> 
>    The question is, should anyone ever have to put up with a horrific 
> situation at their place of employment?

Which false harassment claims cause as well.  Remind me to tell you the 
tale of "Skanky Girl" at Fox Animation who, when faced with termination 
on the rightful grounds that she didn't DO anything, simply threatened a 
false claim of ***ual harassment so they gave her an office and she just 
sat and read comic books all day for, AFAIK, the life of the studio.  
Why should we have had to put up with that?  The loss of valuable office 
space and salary because the ***ual harassment laws are so onerous that 
people give in at the slightest completely false threat of them?

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